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Another snow day

Well good morning everyone.  It would seem we have more snow and so here are some things to keep you busy today.  Remember to have some time outside in the snow if you have some as fresh air and exercise are important too.

Language

P1 – phonics – practise all sounds covered so far.  Practise writing these letters too.

P2 – common words – look at the attached word lists, using a dice, roll the dice and see if you can read the word, then get someone to test you on spelling it.  There are a lot of words and sheets to choose from.

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Rhyming – complete the rhyming worksheet.  If you can think of anymore please add them to the  group.  Then make up a short story using two of the animals on the sheet and have some silly rhyming sentences in it.

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Reading – read your reading book if you have it at home.  If not, read another book, your library book etc and then you can tell me about it when you get back to school.  Let me know what you thought of it and what you liked about it or didn’t like.

Primary 1 maths – Have a look at sumdog and complete the challenges that have been set there for you.

Topic – Complete the weather forecast for today on the sheet, looking and deciding on what it is like at the different stages of the day.  If you want you can challenge yourself by finding out about the wind direction and the temperature at each stage too.  More challenge is to see what the wind speed is too.  Do these change at the different parts of the day?  Sheet attached to complete and just write in the additional information.

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Art – Draw a picture of what you can see today.  You can also draw a Spring picture too.  Although it doesn’t feel like Spring at the moment, we are now in that season!

Health and Wellbeing – if there is snow at your house and you can go outside and play in it then please do so.  This is as good as anything.  If you don’t want to play in the snow, how about going for a walk with someone.  Look for unusual patterns in the snow or there is any ice around?  Does it have a pattern?  Find out how deep the snow is (within reason and safely).  Does it just cover your feet?  Is it deeper and go halfway up your legs?  Are you knee deep?  Build a snow sculpture if you can.

Please do also take care and I look forward to seeing you all again soon and hearing about your day.

Active maths

Part of maths each day is learning through activities or active maths. This can done in many ways.  We are currently learning number at the moment in Primary 1/2. Primary 2 are making a number line to hop along to help with their maths.  Primary 1 are making numbers 1 and 2 with Playdoh.  Then they were making one or two things to go with the number, some of these things were in the book Tiddler by Julia Donaldson.

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Learning through play

Some of us have been wanting to work with letters and the alphabet so decided to make up the alphabet puzzle.  We didn’t want our photo taken though!  Katie, Nora and Lottie Mae all helped to make the jigsaw.

Others wanted to make their jigsaw a little trickier so decided to do it upside down so that they couldn’t see the picture.  They worked together to make sure the piece all fit together correctly.  Archie, Nora and Lauren all worked together as a team!

Others decided to make lovely patterns using the mosaics.  It must have a been a camera shy day as they too didn’t want their picture taken.  Maximus made these lovely patterns.

This also inspired Nora to make her own pattern.

Ollie decided he wanted to build a tower using the lego.

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Maths isn’t all about sums and writing

We are currently learning number in Primary 1/2 and we begin each maths lesson with some activities.  These can be games, paired work or problem solving.  It helps to get our brains thinking and most importantly it is fun!

Here are some pictures of us doing maths with either Miss Morrison or Mrs Inkster.

This is us doing some problem solving with cubes and trying to find different shapes and patterns for ten cubes to link to the number.

       

Here we are  ordering numbers to 10 and beyond with our partners.

And here we are doing a number activity with Miss Morrison.

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Gruffalo foraging and cooking

We had a week where we read about The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson.  We read The Gruffalo’s Child too.  We also heard them in Shetland Dialect.  That was very interesting as there were some words we had never heard before!

After that we went out foraging for ingredients to make some Gruffalo recipes.  Here are photos of us doing that.  We had great fun and used great language and role play used in our cooking and searching.

What the ladybird heard

We listened to the story called ‘What the Ladybird Heard’ and then we followed it up with ‘What the Ladybird Heard Next’

It got us thinking that we could be quite creative and make some ladybird stones while we were doing outdoor learning.  We had great fun, here are some pictures.  We learned about colours, symmetry, numbers, ladybirds, language and many other things.  All whilst having fun and working with friends.